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Theology, Religion, and Dystopia
Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonso
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1329 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 3307 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
Ancient and modern readers alike turn to dystopian tales and topics in order to make sense of experiences of reality that are increasing negative and outside their control. This volume takes theological and religious approaches to dystopian works and themes as revelatory for human flourishing.
Theology
Uncovering Calvin’s God John Calvin on Predestination and the Love of God
By Forrest H. Buckner – Foreword by Oliver D. Crisp
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 250 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0386 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 3841 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0385 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Uncovering Calvin’s God, Forrest H. Buckner provides a robust exposition of John Calvin’s teaching and preaching to reveal that the controversial theologian believed in a God of love who is sovereign over predestination.
Theology
Climate Change Education Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling
Edited by Rebecca L. Young Lexington Books
December 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1579 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5808 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection offers innovative approaches to using popular forms of storytelling as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and guidance about how to engage students in productive conversations about the future with empathy and agency.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Late Theology Encounters with the Unknown Christ
By Eleanor McLaughlin – Foreword by Rowan Williams
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0827 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 8259 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0826 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Eleanor McLaughlin traces the development of Bonhoeffer’s work on unconscious Christianity in his writings and constructs a definition of the term, shedding light not only on Bonhoeffer’s later works, but his theological development as a whole.
Theology
Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity
By Zeger Polhuijs
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1020 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0214 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue: The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity, Zeger Polhuijs recounts the mutual exchanges between Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis and draws attention to the role this mutual influence has played in the developments of their social thought.
Theology
Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation
Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George - Foreword by Jordan Halliday and Tyler Lang
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3522 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5235 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
By promoting total liberation, this volume challenges the reader to think about new approaches to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The contributors examine and disrupt many of the exclusionary assumptions and behaviors by those working toward justice and liberation, encouraging the reader to reflect on their own thoughts and actions.
Animal Rights
Environment,
Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene
Edited by Elizabeth G. Dobbins; Luigi Manca and Maria Lucia Piga
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 434 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0762 1 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7607 7 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0761 4 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial Averting Our Gaze
Edited by Tomaž Grušovnik; Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1048 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0461 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1047 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The theory of denialism proposes that people actively avoid information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities.
Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people use denialism to avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex.
Animal Rights
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Food Geographies
Social, Political, and Ecological Connections
By Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Exploring Geography series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2664 6 • $129.00 / £99.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6653 3 • $49.00 / £38.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2666 0 • $46.50 / £36.00
This text introduces students to current food issues and their underlying social, political, and ecological connections. Concise and accessible, it covers how food production and consumption influences the environment, social and economic relations, politics, and everyday life, with current global examples that address sustainability and equity.
Earth Sciences / Geography
How to Care More
Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change
By Miranda Campbell PhD
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4504 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5050 0 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4506 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
How to Care More offers a definition of care based in relational action, highlighting care as an umbrella concept that can catalyze personal and social change. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience.
Activism & Social Justice
Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity Navigating Insecurities in an American City
By Stephanie M. Baran
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0853 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8543 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book includes interviews and observations from benefit recipients and social-service agents based on a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The author has an honest conversation about the circumstances and institutions around poverty that affect people experiencing it in different ways.
Agriculture & Food
Art and Nuclear Power The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
By Anna Volkmar
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0022 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0231 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Art and Nuclear Power, Anna Volkmar explores a radical new approach to engage with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies. With a focus on nuclear power, Volkmar demonstrates how art can suggest ways to muddle through these issues intelligently and ethically.
Anthropology / Cultural
Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement, Third Edition
By Miranda Schreurs and Elim Papadakis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 480 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6946 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 9594 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1960 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced on green movements, green politics, green trends, and major environmental agreements and events.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Beer and Society
How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us
By Eli Revelle Yano Wilson and Asa B. Stone
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 0435 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 4338 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0434 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society’s collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.
Agriculture & Food
A Sacred Vertigo Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France
By Deana L. Weibel
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5032 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0337 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Deana L. Weibel explains the shifting identities of Rocamadour, a medieval Black Madonna shrine turned tourist attraction, which enchants both the devout and secular. Weibel analyzes how locals and visitors compete to define Rocamadour, arguing that the unusual properties of the cliff-hanging site make it a prize worth fighting for.
Anthropology / Cultural
Arts of Healing
Cultural Narratives of Trauma
Edited by Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4826 6 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 0973 3 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1098 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
Proposes new ways of ‘thinking trauma’, foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible?
Anthropology / Cultural
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Belfast Imaginary Art and Urban Reinvention
By Katharine Keenan Lexington Books
March 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2811 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8121 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Belfast Imaginary depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and perform a new urban identity for Belfast in the liminal time between the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit.
Anthropology / Cultural
Clinical Anthropology 2.0
Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience
By Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9768 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7692 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists can help to improve patient experience and medical education as members of interdisciplinary care teams in clinical settings.
Anthropology / Cultural
Decolonizing Queer Experience
LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Edited by Emily Channell-Justice
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3032 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0308 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3031 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Decolonizing Queer Experience draws from research around the post-socialist world to argue that understanding LGBT+ experience in the region cannot be limited to oppression and violence. Using a decolonizing lens, the contributors explore performance, identity, and political affiliations as essential parts of LGBT+ communities.
Anthropology / Cultural
Eastern Métis Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past
Edited by Michel Bouchard; Sébastien Malette and Siomonn Pulla
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0545 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5436 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0544 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
Pushed to the historical and social margins for too long, Eastern Métis reviews the record of these sidelined communities and the effort to reclaim their past. This book is the first-ever scholarly endeavor to trace the emergence and consolidation of Métis identities from the Atlantic Coast to Ontario and beyond.
Anthropology / Cultural
Black Millennials Identity, Ambition, and Activism
Edited by Jacquelin Darby
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 128 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1183 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1819 9 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1182 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Black Millennials is a collection of writings by self-identified black millennials who engage with their own unique experiences of identity, career, and social engagement in modern society.
Anthropology / Cultural
Complying with Genocide The Wolf You Feed
By E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3461 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4597 7 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3460 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson examine why individuals and whole nations become complicit in genocide. They present leading research on the characteristics of those most susceptible to genocidal messages and outline counteractive strategies.
Anthropology / Cultural
Designing Social Architecture Spaces, Relationships, and Communities in the Philippines
By Fuyuki Makino
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4951 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Designing Social Architecture, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form microrelationships, social networks, and social structures among inhabitants of Manila, Philippines, and considers whether the architects’ aim to promote certain social behaviors was successful or not.
Anthropology / Cultural
Everyday
Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities
By Siobhan Brooks
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 110 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7577 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5751 1 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7576 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks illustrates that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people are the product of institutions and ideologies that exist both outside and inside of Black and Latinx communities.
Anthropology / Cultural
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Extracting Honduras
Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration
By James J. Phillips
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3033 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0346 6 • $104.50 / £81.00
This book explores the deeper causes of recent massive emigrations from Honduras, tracing the roots to the neoliberal extractive development model that has created conditions of poverty, corruption, and violence for over a generation in the context of the colonial (or imperial) relationship of Honduras to the United States.
Anthropology / Cultural
Feeding the Hustle Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry
By Jesse Dart
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3501 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5020 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart examines how free food programs in the workplace alter the relationship between employer and employee, support a flexible type of workforce, and reveal a commensality that is both exclusionary and inclusionary.
Anthropology / Cultural
Forests
as
Fuel
Fashionable Traditions
Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion
Edited by Ayami Nakatani
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 316 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8651 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6498 8 • $121.00 / £93.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8650 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian, handmade textile production and consumption. Contributors to this collection reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers to offer a vivid account of the socioeconomic, political, and cultural dynamics of Asian fashion.
Anthropology / Cultural
Field Stories
Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 4398 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3964 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4397 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Field Stories presents and analyzes fieldwork stories shared in classrooms to demonstrate how ethnographic methods and analysis can be communicated more clearly to the next generation of students. The chapters are rich in detail, and written in clear narrative prose, highlighting the value of ethnographic data, and the enchantment of the field.
Anthropology / Cultural
Energy,
Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South
By Sarah Hitchner; John Schelhas and J. Peter Brosius - Foreword by James Marshall Shepherd
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3234 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2357 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Forests as Fuel uses extensive multi-sited ethnography to address the complexities of bioenergy development, highlighting the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change in rural, forest- dependent communities within the US South.
Anthropology / Cultural
Imagining Asia
Cultural Citizenship and Nation Building in the National Museums of Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau
By Emily Stokes-Rees
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 268 pages • Part of the Asian
Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4795 5 • $44.95 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9045 5 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0905 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book explores the development and influence of national museums in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Anthropology / Cultural
Historic Takings in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Recreation and Remains
By David Fazzino
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2739 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7407 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author examines the many takings of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to consider the contested legal and personal meanings and valuations of property, place, and memory. The book suggests personal and systemic approaches to reframe place and reconcile public development with personal and community loss.
Anthropology / Cultural
Mentored to Perfection
The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia
By Simone Dennis and Alison Behie
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1477 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4788 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mentored to Perfection: The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia examines how mentoring programs between women tend to replicate the hierarchical relations of patriarchy that they are meant to dismantle.
Anthropology / Cultural
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Metropolitan Intimacies An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life
By Francisco Cruces Lexington Books
July 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3321 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 7936 3231 1 eBook 978 1 7936 3322 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents’ daily lives.
Anthropology / Cultural
Not Even a Grain of Rice Buying Food on Credit in the Dominican Republic
By Christine Hippert
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the
Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change series
Paperback 978 1 4985 6962 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9606 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6961 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Not Even a Grain of Rice, Christine Hippert examines the intercultural networks of buying food with in-store credit at corner stores in the Dominican Republic.
Anthropology / Cultural
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales
Edited by Allyssa McCabe and MinJeong Kim
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1288 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2890 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume examines East and Southeast Asian folktales unfamiliar to most Western audiences and highlights similarities to and differences from Western folktales. The discussion includes folktales from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea.
Anthropology / Cultural
Resettling Displaced Communities
Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement
By William L. Partridge and David B. Halmo
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Crossing
Borders in a Global World series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2404 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4024 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2403 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The goal of resettlement must be the sustainable social, economic and human development of displaced communities. The provisions and directives entailed in resettlement policies and current performance standards constitute the I.S.I.R. Case examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas illustrate the praxis required for improving outcomes.
Anthropology / Cultural
Mexico’s Rebellious Afterlives Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War
By Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0937 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 9388 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mexico’s Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines Mexican activists’ mobilizations against the state, capitalist, and criminal violence in the narco epoch.
Anthropology / Cultural
Nude and Naked Women in the Arts Mexico and Beyond
By Eli Bartra - Foreword by Francesca Gargallo
Celentani - Translated by Ellen Jones; Jessie Méndez Sayer and Andrea Knowles
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4744 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7450 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Nude and Naked Women in the Arts: Mexico and Beyond is a study of female nudity as represented by men and women in Mexico and other parts of the world through analysis of both high art and folk art. Subjects & Themes / General
Raymond Williams at 100
Edited by Paul Stasi
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5431 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5074 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4508 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
This volume, timed to coincide with what would have been Williams’s 100th birthday, tests his ideas in our own experience and to engage Williams’s work in ways that move past the familiar terrain that has grown around it.
Anthropology / Cultural
Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel Stories Beyond Nature-Culture Divide
By Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9115 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1164 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel, Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu examines shamanism as a significant trope in a selection of contemporary novels. Yazicioglu finds that these works ultimately challenge anthropocentric and androcentric discourses and offer alternative perspectives for social and environmental justice on an endangered planet.
Anthropology / Cultural
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The Gift of the Middle Tanana Dene Pre-Colonial History in the Alaskan Interior
By Gerad M. Smith - Foreword by Charles E. Holmes
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Afterword by Evelynn Combs
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5476 2 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4779 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Gerad Smith explores the history, ethnography, and archaeological record of the Native people living in the Middle Tanana Valley in Alaska during the late Holocene. Smith illustrates how the role of deep-play rituals of reciprocity shaped a traditional society that has lasted over a thousand years.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Mosque Conflict in Catalonia Space, Culture, and Capitalism
By Martin Lundsteen
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0895 4 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 6669 8961 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Politics of Alterity France and her Others
By Sarah Mazouz - Translated by Rachel Gomme Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series Hardback 978 1 5381 4590 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5920 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Drawing on an ethnographic survey conducted in antidiscrimination and naturalisation offices in the Paris region, this book shows how immigration, nation, and racialization are articulated in the social space and questions the processes of inclusion and exclusion within the national group itself and between the national and the foreigner.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Relationship People Mediating Love and Marriage in Twenty-First Century Japan
By Erika R Alpert
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9420 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4219 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry professionals are promoting to ease Japan’s low rates of marriage and childbirth, what singles are actually doing, and whether focusing on introducing more singles to each other can effectively solve Japan’s millennial woes.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco Cultural and Economic Transformations
By Hsain Ilahiane
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1658 6 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6593 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Politics and Promise of Yoga Contemporary Relevance of an Ancient Practice
By Anjali Kanojia
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9934 4 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9351 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
Yoga is a popular and beneficial evidence-based health practice. This book addresses the origins, explores yoga’s evolution, and outlines current scientific research as well as contemporary discussions related to the possibilities as well as the politicization of this ancient Indian practice.
Yoga
The Politics of Memory Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil
By Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4813 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 1215 5 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1122 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book explores how a site can turn into a mummification of the past, displaying long-gone splendour, or a living, breathing treasure offering dynamic cultural and educational opportunities.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders
Political Resistance from the Margins
By Anny Morissette
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 4572 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5708 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4571 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors’ political resistance to the Canadian government amidst threats to the tribe’s traditional political structures.
Anthropology / Cultural
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To Eat or Not to Eat Meat
How Vegetarian Dietary Choices Influence Our Social Lives
Edited by Charlotte De Backer; Julie Dare and Leesa Costello - By Maryanne L. Fisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5965 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4964 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
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How does being vegetarian influence our social life? This book applies a narrative inquiry approach and presents stories from vegetarians across the globe that explore how our food choices can have complex social consequences.
Vegetarian & Vegan
Transnational Yoga at Work Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots
By Laurah E. Klepinger
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1562 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5633 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this ethnography, Laurah E. Klepinger examines wageworkers, yoga practitioners, and spiritual tourists in a transnational yoga institution. Klepinger argues that the institution’s peacebuilding mission obscures the patterns of injustice and social inequality it reproduces.
Anthropology / Cultural
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health
Edited by Janet M. Page-Reeves
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 460 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society series
Paperback 978 1 4985 5940 9 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9386 6 • $144.00 / £111.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5939 3 • $44.50 / £34.00
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations.
Anthropology / Cultural
A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts
By Nancy Odegaard and Gerry Wagner Crouse American Alliance of Museums
December 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4887 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBookt 978 1 5381 4888 4 • $80.50 / £62.00
This full-color visual dictionary contains an unambiguous vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items.
Terminology for a broad array of object types is accompanied by original color illustrations.
Directories
Trans-Asia as Method Theory and Practices
Edited by Jeroen de Kloet; Yiu Fai Chow and Gladys Pak Lei Chong
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4810 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 0782 2 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1079 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
This collection offers an interdisciplinary discussion of “trans-Asia” approaches from critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film studies.
Anthropology / Cultural
Trapped by History
The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia
By Darryl Cronin
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 312 pages • Part of the Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5261 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
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This book advocates for a movement beyond the current colonial relationship with Indigenous Australians.
Anthropology / Cultural
Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica Seven Miles of Sandy Beach
By A. Lynn Bolles
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1556 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5572 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in Negril, Jamaica.
Anthropology / Cultural
Artistic Traditions of Inner Eurasian Cultures
Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Golden Ages
By Ardi Kia
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1858 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8595 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golden ages. The manuscript features extensive analysis of multiple Inner Eurasian cultural groups, their artistic traditions, and the development thereof throughout the region’s history.
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Child Survivors of Genocide Trauma, Resilience, and Identity in Guatemala
By Shirley A. Heying - Foreword by Andre J. Holten
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 346 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0229 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2305 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the experiences of orphaned child survivors of Guatemala’s 36-year internal armed conflict and genocide who were raised in an in-country permanent residential home. Now adults, they have faced long-term consequences but also have become resilient, welladapted adults with a strong sense of identity and belonging.
Anthropology / General
Creating Care Art and Medicine in US Hospitals
By Marlaine Figueroa Gray
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4861 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8624 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Creating Care: Art and Medicine in US Hospitals is an ethnographic study of art programming in hospitals across the United States.
Anthropology / General
Indigenous Settlers of the Galápagos Conservation Law, Race, and Society
By Pilar Sánchez Voelkl
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0659 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6608 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Pilar Sánchez Voelkl offers an anthropological account of the early arrival and prominence of Indigenous peoples in the Galápagos Islands. Their history and everyday life reveal how multiple notions of nature, race, and society travel and meet, shaping the way conservation thought is translated into law.
Anthropology / General
Nomadic Food Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World
Edited by Jean Pierre Williot and Isabelle Bianquis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5964 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5985 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1599 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
This enlightening collection of essays from expert scholars examines the idea of food nomadism and food nomads. Looking at the role of mobility and the influence of food manufacturers and related industries, they reveal the complexities of this intriguing subject.
Anthropology / General
Conservation and Community in Kenya Milking the Elephant
By Carolyn K. Lesorogol
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5029 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0306 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Carolyn K. Lesorogol examines community-based wildlife conservation in Kenya and its complex effects on local communities. Lesorogol argues that this approach to conservation creates new land use institutions, brings both benefits and costs to conservancy members, and at times heightens social conflict.
Anthropology / General
Feminist Ethnography Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities, Second Edition
By Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2979 1 • $98.00 / £75.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9807 7 • $42.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2981 4 • $39.50 / £30.00
Now in its second edition, Feminist Ethnography is at once a howto manual for doing feminist ethnography and a compendium of contributions from influential feminist ethnographers. Its multi-vocal and interdisciplinary focus make it ideal to assign in any discipline promoting critical methodologies as sites for reflection, collaboration, and creativity.
Anthropology / General
Medical Tourism and Inequity in India The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare
By Kristen Smith
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4417 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4183 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues.
Anthropology / General
Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense
By H. Sidky
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0653 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6518 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0652 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, H. Sidky examines how a cadre of American academics influenced by French postmodern philosophy during the 1980’s and 1990’s informed and empowered the assault on science and truth by corporate organizations, post-truth politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists in the present post-truth era.
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Speaking of Race Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children
By Jennifer B. Delfino
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 202 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0650 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6488 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0649 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial identity among African American children in a Washington, D.C.-based after school program. after school program. It is based on three years of the author’s teaching and ethnographic research.
Anthropology / General
Terrestrial Transformations
A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
Edited by Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 318 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0548 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5467 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0547 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Drawing on a broad range of case studies, the contributors to Terrestrial Transformations explore the political and economic forces entangled in environmental and ecological problems and look at humanity’s future in light of climate change and existing environmental problems.
Anthropology / General
The Mobility Imperative A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration
By Augustin F. C. Holl
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 280 pages Hardback 978 1 6669 0379 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3805 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
This work explores the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and expansion of humans to cattle domestication and beyond.
Anthropology / General
Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene
Edited by Peter Kraftl; Peter Kelly; Diego Carbajo Padilla; Rosalyn Black; Seth Brown and Anoop Nayak
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Children and Young People in the Anthropocene series Hardback 978 1 5381 5362 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3635 5 • $99.50 / £77.00
This book brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people’s well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems are in crisis.
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Sustaining Social Conflict Hatred, Money, and Genocide
By E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1870 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8717 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the roots of hatred, genocide, and mass murder in psychology, history, politics, and economics, including the funding of destructive political campaigns. It provides solutions grounded in moral philosophy as well as possible legal measures.
Anthropology / General
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the TwentyFirst Century
By Alin Rus
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 468 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1543 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays by closely analyzing the promotion, exploitation, and transformation of traditional practices from northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine.
Anthropology / General
Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene
Edited by Peter Kelly; Peter Kraftl; Diego Carbajo Padilla; Rosalyn Black; Deborah MacDonald; Meave Noonan and Ana Sofia Ribeiro
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Children and Young People in the Anthropocene series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5364 2 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3659 9 • $109.00 / £84.00
This book presents stories of children and young people’s entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene.
Anthropology / General
Krav Maga and the Making of Modern Israel For Zion’s Sake
By Andrea Molle
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Martial Arts Studies series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4361 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3629 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the political implications of martial arts through an analysis of Zionism. Grounded in political science, martial arts studies, and hoplology, it presents a critical history of Krav Maga, the processes that have contributed to defining Israeliness, and the idea that limited violence is vital to maintain a cooperative society.
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Road Scars Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma
By Robert Matej Bednar
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Place, Memory, Affect series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4833 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4131 1 • $142.00 / £109.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1414 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Road Scars uses mobile fieldwork, photography, and critical discourse analysis to show the complex and intriguing ways that these shrines not only work to mourn and remember individual crash victims but work to create a distinctive kind of momentary and mobile public among strangers driving by.
Anthropology / Physical
Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Religion
and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise
By John Soderberg
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3039 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0407 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise’s development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space.
Archaeology
Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest An Archaeology of Native American Cultures
By Radosław Palonka
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 390 pages • Part of the Issues in Southwest Archaeology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4873 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the development of pre-Hispanic Native American cultures in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest from the Paleoindian period until the appearance of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century through studies of settlements, rock art, and pottery iconography.
Archaeology
Practicing Archaeology
A Manual For Cultural Resources Archaeology, third Edition
By Thomas W. Neumann; Robert M. Sanford and Mary Spink Neumann
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 496 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5937 8 • $165.00 / £127.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9385 5 • $75.00 / £58.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5939 2 • $65.50 / £50.00
Here’s the perfect one-stop for courses in field archaeology and archaeologists just beginning their initial field work. Current, up-todate and comprehensive, this is how “it’s really done” in the field.
Archaeology
The Natural History of Primates A Systematic Survey of Ecology and Behavior
Edited by Robert W. Sussman; Donna Hart and Ian C. Colquhoun
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 680 pages
Paperback 978 1 4422 4899 1 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 4422 9004 4 • $65.00 / £50.00
The first new primatology text available in over a decade—24 chapters combine the latest in-depth findings on ecology, behavior, and conservation from top primatologists Anthropology / Physical
Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region
By Gregory Denis Lattanzi
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1931 0 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9327 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets in prehistoric burials in the Middle Atlantic region could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.
Archaeology
Correlative Archaeology Rethinking Archaeological Theory
By Fumi Arakawa Lexington Books
June 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Issues in Southwest Archaeology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4378 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3797 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fumi Arakawa, a Japanese scholar who was trained in Western archaeology, uses correlative thinking practices, which are derived from an East Asian view of the world that stresses connectivity, to analyze American Southwest artifacts within the prehistoric landscape of their origin.
Archaeology
Private Lives, Public Histories
An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past
Edited by Jacqueline Fewkes and Rachel Corr
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0430 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4286 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0429 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience.
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The Archaeology of Childhood, Second Edition
By Jane Eva Baxter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 4422 6849 4 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4422 8500 0 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 4422 6851 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
The Archaeology of Childhood traces the history of childhood studies in archaeology and makes a case for the importance of studying children in the past. The book summarizes current research and offers overarching ideas to help archaeologists study children using the archaeological record.
Archaeology
Growing up in Latin America
Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture
Edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and Pilar Osorio Lora
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 300 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series Hardback 978 1 6669 1687 4 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6881 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, violence, postcoloniality, and precarity are central to this volume. Children’s Studies
Cleaning Up Greenwash Corporate Environmental Crime and the Crisis of Capitalism
By Angus Nurse
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0054 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0554 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.
Criminology
Crime in TV, the News, and Film Misconceptions, Mischaracterizations, and Misinformation
By Beth E. Adubato; Nicole M. Sachs; Donald F. Fizzinoglia and John M. Swiderski
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2868 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8695 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
With a combination of field experience and criminological research, this book gives insight to the news and drama programming that shapes the way viewers perceive crime and the formation of policy.
Criminology
The Marginalized in Death A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
Edited by Jennifer F. Byrnes and Iván SandovalCervantes - Foreword by Zoë Crossland
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 372 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2309 4 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3100 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume brings forensic and cultural anthropology closer together through case studies of structural violence and power. Paying attention to how death further marginalizes minoritized populations, this volume goes beyond conventional forensic anthropology and sheds light on the field’s potential to address social injustice.
Archaeology
Conspiracy Beliefs as Coping Behavior Life Stressors, Powerlessness, and Extreme Beliefs
By Helen M. Hendy and Pamela Black
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0403 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4048 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using a survey of 977 US citizens, this book explores who? and why? individuals sometimes adopt conspiracy beliefs. The authors evaluate a three-step psychological sequence in which individuals experiencing intense life stressors, combined with powerlessness, have increased risk for extreme beliefs, which they argue is due to cognitive coping.
Conspiracy Theories
Crime in the United States 2022, Sixteenth Edition
Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis Bernan Press
July 2022 • 664 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1062 4 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0631 1 • $130.00 / £100.00
Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States and is an important addition to your library’s collection.
Criminology
Crime, Punishment, and Video Games
By Kristine Levan and Steven Downing
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1337 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3387 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Crime, Punishment, and Video Games presents a comprehensive overview of some of the most pressing issues related to video games and their relationship with crime and justice.
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Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted
Edited by Fonkem Achankeng I and Janet Hagen -
By Alfred T. Kisubi
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9590 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5889 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9589 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues for the importance of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system.
Criminology
Criminality and the Modern Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America
By Stephen Brauer
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0844 4 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8451 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer examines Americans’ understanding of criminality in the twentieth-century and how the powerful figure of the criminal is key to exploring cultures, social norms, and, ultimately, laws.
Criminology
Gender, Crime, and Justice Learning through Cases
By Erin Katherine Krafft; Jo-Ann Della Giustina and Susan T. Krumholz Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Learning through Cases series
Hardback 978 1 4422 5785 6 • $130.00 / £100.00 Paperback 978 1 4422 7863 3 • $65.00 / £50.00
In Gender, Crime, and Justice, each chapter opens with a compelling case study that illustrates key concepts, followed by a narrative chapter that builds on the case study to introduce essential elements. This book is distinctive in its inclusion of LGBTQ experiences in crime, victimization, processing, and punishment.
Criminology
Global Problems in Sexual Offenses
Edited by Rahime Erbaş
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5203 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sexual offences pose severe violations of human rights that necessitate criminal law intervention in every democratic society. This edited collection analyzes sexual offences throughout multiple jurisdictions in terms of attrition rate.
Criminology
Criminality and Crime A Social-Cognitive-Developmental Theory of Delinquent and Criminal Behavior
By Glenn D. Walters
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0442 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4437 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Criminality and Crime integrates criminality and participation in a specific criminal event. Although criminality and crime are normally considered separate entities, this book treats them as part of the same process, connected by their common association with criminal thinking.
Criminology
Cyberhate
The Far Right in the Digital Age
Edited by James Bacigalupo; Kevin Borgeson and Robin Maria Valeri
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0697 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6983 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Cyberhate: The Far-Right in the Digital Age explores the online world of right-wing political extremism through the propaganda, funding mechanisms, online subcultures, violent movements, and the ideologies that drive it.
Criminology
Gifts from the Dark Learning from the Incarceration Experience
By Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9172 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1706 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9171 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Without minimizing the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, Gifts from the Dark challenges the mindset of incarceration as a solely one dimensional, deficit event. Instead, this book argues that the prison experience can potentially be one of transformational learning.
Criminology
Incarcerated Resistance How Identity, Gender, and Privilege Shape the Experiences of America’s Nonviolent Activists
By Anya Stanger
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0561 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5627 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Grounded in the lives of some of its most committed nonviolent activists, Incarcerated Resistance tells a story of anti-war resistance, what it means to “go to jail for justice” in the contemporary United States, and shows how identity matters in both the activation of prison witness, and as a key shaper of individual experience.
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Interpersonal Violence against Children and Youth
Edited by Hyeyoung Lim
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1433 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4346 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Pulling together researchers, practitioners, and educators from around the world, this book addresses the various practices and efforts different countries use to protect children and prevent interpersonal violence.
Criminology
Law Enforcement–Perpetrated Homicides Accidents to Murder
By Tom Barker
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Policing
Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0192 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1902 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0191 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Tom Barker examines police homicide and the different behavior patterns that lead to it, ranging from misadventure to intent. This book includes a variety of cases from accidental deaths involving careless, reckless or negligent law enforcement officers to murders committed by LEOs engaged in organized crime or serial sexual homicides.
Criminology
Policing Sex Crimes
By Dale Spencer and Rosemary Ricciardelli
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Applied Criminology across the Globe series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5948 4 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9491 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Unique in its approach, Policing Sex Crimes probes the investigations of sex crimes from the perspectives of investigators.
Criminology
Sex Trafficking of Children Online Modern Slavery in Cyberspace
By Beatriz Susana Uitts Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Applied
Criminology across the Globe series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4694 1 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6958 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
This book argues that forms of online child sexual exploitation equate to slavery-like practices under international law and that States have a responsibility to punish offenders as such, based on a careful review of relevant legal instruments and standards.
Criminology
Justice Statistics
An Extended Look at Crime in the United States 2022, Seventh Edition
Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis
Bernan Press
November 2022 • 560 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1076 1 • $104.00 / £80.00 eBook 978 1 6367 0778 8 • $98.50 / £76.00
This completely updated edition of Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States provides an extended look at the crimes covered and reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Criminology
Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists
By Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A. Cooper
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0174 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1728 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0173 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the impact that training has on officer decisionmaking during calls for service where an individual has a mental health disorder, from both an empirical and historical perspective.
Criminology
Sex Crimes and Offenders Exploring Questions of Character and Culture
By Mary Clifford and Alison Feigh Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 616 pages • Part of the Theory and Practice in Criminal Justice series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2516 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5175 5 • $50.00 / £38.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2518 2 • $47.50 / £37.00
Sex Crimes and Offenders emphasizes the need to focus on individual perpetrators while also stressing the importance of looking at the offender’s social and cultural environments, as well as the social and political responses designed to hold perpetrators accountable and help support victims.
Criminology
Social Media Victimization Theories and Impacts of Cyberpunishment
By Jessica Emami
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 116 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2964 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9654 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Social Media Victimization examines how and why social media cultivates conflict and misunderstanding, and offers solutions on how to move forward.
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Stop Trying to Fix Policing Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation
By Tony Gaskew Lexington Books
May 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8952 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9505 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8951 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition.
Criminology
The Dark Side of the Criminal Justice System War Crimes & the Black Community, 1960-1990
By Ronald L. Morris
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1319 6 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3202 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Beginning in the Civil Rights era, the American criminal justice system waged a campaign of terror and warlike oppression of Black Americans, Ronald L. Morris analyzes those dark times, it’s cause, short- and longterm effects, and calls for change.
Criminology
The Illicit Economy in Turkey How Criminals, Terrorists, and the Syrian Conflict Fuel Underground Markets
By Mahmut Cengiz and Mitchel P. Roth
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9506 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5049 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9505 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the transnational expansion of the illicit economy in Turkey and the unintended consequences of corruption scandals at the highest levels of the Turkish government that have resulted in the purging of important law enforcement and intelligence entities formerly responsible for countering terrorism and organized crime threats.
Criminology
Twenty Years of School-based Mass Shootings in the United States Columbine to Santa Fe
By Angelyn Spaulding Flowers and Cotina Lane
Pixley
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1315 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3134 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1314 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines school-based mass shootings by focusing on characteristics of the incident and geographic space to synthesize a holistic picture of the legal, socio-economic, and geographic context in which these incidents occur.
Criminology
Survivor Criminology A Radical Act of Hope
Edited by Kimberly J. Cook; Jason M. Williams; Reneè D. Lamphere; Stacy L. Mallicoat and Alissa R. Ackerman - Foreword by Elizabeth A. Stanko Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Applied Criminology across the Globe series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5169 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1709 9 • $114.50 / £88.00
Survivor Criminology explores how one’s status as a survivor has informed their journey and commitment to research, teaching, and activism. It provides a both a greater understanding to issues of victimization and gives a voice to those experiences as their foundation for criminological research, advocacy, and policy development.
Criminology
The Future of Policing 200 Recommendations to Enhance Policing and Community Safety
By Scott A. Cunningham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6304 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3061 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6305 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
America is challenging everything about policing – its equipment, tactics, role, tasks, and even its very existence. This book guides those conversations by providing 200 specific recommendations that cover all aspects of policing, even the most controversial and important issues.
Criminology
The Politics of Human Trafficking Lessons from Asia and Europe
By Siddhartha Sarkar
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1171 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1697 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1170 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Based on theoretical and empirical evidence from a cross-country study, this book unfolds the basic structure of human trafficking organizations, the sophisticated methods and technology they use, and the interactions and roles played by global state and non-state actors.
Criminology
Understanding
Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media
The Construction of Social Order
Edited by Sebahattin Ziyanak
Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7314 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3150 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book deviance through technology and media is explained. Contributors examine substance abuse, gun violence, terrorism, adolescent substance use, deviance and crime, fear of terrorism, Kurdish pride gang, media exposure, secularization and modernity, social control, social order, and the impact of Covid-19 on children’s lives.
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Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural
From Animus to Zombi
Edited by Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0741 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7421 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of ‘dead,’ and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.
Death & Dying
The 53 Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster
By Jason S. Ulsperger - Foreword by J. David Knottnerus
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0974 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9755 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
In 1965, 53 men died in a Titan II missile silo in rural Arkansas, the deadliest nuclear accident ever in a U.S. facility. This book provides an analysis of the event and post-disaster life for their children, who share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.
Death & Dying
Millennials in America 2022, Fourth Edition
By Robert L. Scardamalia Bernan Press
April 2022 • 468 pages • Part of the County and City Extra series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1050 1 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 6367 0518 8 • $123.50 / £95.00
This completely updated fourth edition of Millennials in America provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the millennial generation.
Demography
The Grandparent Vocation Wisdom, Legacies, and Spiritual Growth
By Richard P. Olson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6440 2 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4419 9 • $24.00 / £17.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6442 6 • $22.50 / £16.99
This book is about grandparenting as a Christian vocation for the afternoon and evening of life. The author presents the unconditional love of a grandparent as indicative of a vocation, a calling from God. He explores the vocation of grandparent in all of its multiple dimensions of being and doing, including play and joy and laughter.
Parenting / Grandparenting
Sociology of Death and the American Indian
By Gerry R. Cox - Foreword by Neil Thompson
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 394 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0850 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 8510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents a sociological analysis of death and bereavement practices of American Indians with oral histories from select tribes describing their practices.
Death & Dying
County and City Extra, Special 2020 Decennial Census Edition
Edited by Deirdre A. Gaquin and Mary Meghan Ryan Bernan Press
September 2022 • 692 pages
Hardback 978 1 6367 1105 8 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 6367 1065 5 • $142.50 / £110.00
This publication is an essential single-volume source for Census 2020 information. This easy-to-read edition provides the most up-to-date census data for each state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and all cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It complements the popular and trusted annual edition of County and City Extra.
Demography
State Profiles 2022
The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State, Thirteenth Edition
Edited by Hannah Anderson Krog Bernan Press
December 2022 • 568 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1074 7 • $204.00 / £158.00 eBook 978 1 6367 0754 4 • $193.50 / £150.00
State Profiles 2022 provides a completely updated ten-page profile for each U.S. state plus the District of Columbia provides reliable, up-todate information on a wide range of topics, including: population, labor force, income and poverty, government finances, crime, education, health insurance, voting, marital status, migration, and more.
Demography
The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy Affirming Mental Health Practice
Edited by Michelle D. Vaughan and Theodore R. Burnes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 436 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5712 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7138 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5714 5 • $42.50 / £33.00
This handbook is a comprehensive guide to understanding the lives/ relationships of CNM individuals for mental health professionals and trainees. This text provides critical foundational knowledge and concrete recommendations for serving this diverse and unique population.
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S.
Edited by Paul S. Adams and Geoffrey L. Wood
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2801 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7995 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2800 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors study social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disasters to worsen inequalities in America.
Disasters & Disaster Relief
Can Muslims Think? Race, Islam, and the End of Europe
By Muneeb Hafiz
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 384 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6507 2 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5089 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Can Muslims Think? presents a speculative theory of the (post)racial subject of Islamophobia.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Womanist Ethical Rhetoric
A Call for Liberation and Social Justice in Turbulent Times
Edited by Annette D. Madlock and Cerise L. Glenn
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 132 pages • Part of the Rhetoric, Race, and Religion series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1357 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3554 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1356 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric centers discourses of religious rhetoric and its influence on Black women’s aims for voice, empowerment, and agency in these turbulent times.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture
Raw Matters
Edited by Loïc Bourdeau and V. Hunter Capps
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5008 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0092 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume offers a multidisciplinary study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the French context from the 1980s to today through the concept of rawness. Exploring vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma in relation to disease, this collection provides important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics.
Disease & Health Issues
A Leftist Critique of the Principles of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism
By Richard Anderson-Connolly
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9069 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0679 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9068 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
The political and academic program of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism is not a progressive social movement and, in fact, works against the principles and values of the Left. Race against Reason critiques the key tenets of the program and offers a genuinely leftist way forward.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Interracial Romance and Health Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and WellBeing
By Byron Miller - Introduction by Roudi Nazarinia Roy and Anthony G. James Jr.
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3405 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4061 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being examines how the race of one’s partner, and the couple’s racial composition, can affect a person’s lived experiences and health outcomes.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria Caused by the COVID-2019 Pandemic
Edited by Abdul Karim Bangura
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 584 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1219 7 • $165.00 / £127.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2203 3 • $60.00 / £46.00
This book focuses on how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe due to reactions to news media reports and policies instituted by governments to address the challenges emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disease & Health Issues
Womanist AIDS Activism in the United States “It’s Who We Are”
By Angelique Harris and Omar Mushtaq
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the Health and Aging in the Margins series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3651 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using womanism, a framework that centers the worldviews of women of color, this book examines the experiences of Black women AIDS activists from across the United States. The authors conducted interviews with activists across the nation to examine the ways in which race, gender, and identity influence their work.
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African Immigrants in the United States The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration?
By Mamadi Corra
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4822 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8235 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Today, African immigrants constitute a growing and increasingly visible component of the US population. This book takes a closer look at the growth of African immigration to the United States in recent years, examining sociodemographic profiles of these “new African Americans” or “new Americans.”
Emigration & Immigration
The Homecoming Seasons An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island
By James P. MacGuire
Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7330 3 • $27.95 / £21.99 eBook 978 0 7618 3310 0 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book is James P. MacGuire’s poignant memoir of returning to his childhood hometown on the South Shore of Long Island to raise his own family, re-encountering its natural wetland beauty, his late parents’ now older friends, and making new ones in a community undergoing transition.
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
The Other of Climate Change Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism
By Andrew Baldwin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series Hardback 978 1 7866 1450 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 4513 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Offers readers an alternative way of conceptualising humanism in relation to global change, one that draws in particular from black studies as opposed to one located in the ontological fold of European humanism.
Earth Sciences / Geography
AfroLatinas and LatiNegras
Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective
Edited by Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Critical Africana Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1033 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0346 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
An Ethnography of the Lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Migrants Childhood, Family, and Work
By Ethel V. Kosminsky - Foreword by Arthur Sakamoto
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 376 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 2261 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2618 8 • $42.99 / £33.00 eBook 978 1 4985 2260 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book explores the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in São Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. Using interviews and fieldwork done in both Bastos and Japan, Ethel Kosminsky analyzes the consequences of these temporary labor migrations on the immigrants and their families.
Emigration & Immigration
The Immigration Crisis in Europe and the U.S.Mexico Border in the New Era of Heightened Nativism
By Victoria Carty
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8391 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3893 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8390 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Victoria Carty uses theories of immigration, social movements, and critical race theory to study the recent immigration crises on both sides of the Atlantic. Carty shows that the high volume of immigration in both the European Union and the United States has led to a resurgence of nativist sentiments and white supremacy groups.
Emigration & Immigration
Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea
Edited by Yonson Ahn
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the Korean Communities across the World series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9334 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3328 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9333 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through a series of empirical studies, this edited volume examines socio-cultural aspects of transnational mobility in and out of Korea as well as the process in which overseas Koreans, returnees, and marriage migrants in South Korea gain agency and negotiate multiple identities. Emigration & Immigration
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943
By Ronald LaMarr Sharps
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 386 pages • Part of the Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8613 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6146 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
A study in cultural politics, the book illustrates how nine black movements used competing interpretations of folklore to achieve racial identity and pursue equality in America during 50 years of Jim Crow, 1893–1943.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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Black Love Matters Authentic Men’s Voices on Marriages and Romantic Relationships
By Armon R. Perry
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2206 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2044 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2205 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Black Love Matters is an in-depth qualitative analysis of black men’s attitudes and behavior in marriage and romantic relationships featuring the men’s firsthand accounts of the experiences and factors shaping their perspectives.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives
By Dana Renee Horton
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1913 6 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9143 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides a new, innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Horton draws on broad range of examples including novels like The Known World, films like 12 Years a Slave, and the music of Missy Elliott.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
On Lynchings
By Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Introduction by Patricia Hill Collins
Humanities Press
November 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Classics in Black Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4738 2 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 7399 9 • $28.50 / £21.99
Collection of three key documents written by Ida B. Wells describing shocking testaments to cruelty and the dark American legacy of racial prejudice.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Racial Realism and the History of Black People in America
By Lori Latrice Martin
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4816 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Racial Realism, Lori Latrice Martin demonstrates how racial realism is a key concept for understanding why and how black people continue to live between a cycle of optimism and disappointment in the United States. The book includes historical topics as well as recent social movements and the pandemic.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat Crossroads as Ritual
By Joyce White
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 178 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4663 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6644 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Returning to the cosmological and ontological center of Africana spirituality, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual explores the ways in which Danticat texts awaken Africana consciousness and clarify identity and subjectivity.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World
The Past, Present, and Future
Edited by Alem Hailu; Mohamed S. Camara and Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0274 7 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2754 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the unique contribution of HBCUs, arguing that through their distinct public education, engagement, and activism, they have been at the forefront of leading global transformations. The book also argues that HBCUs can do more by paying more attention to the issue of enrollment, leadership, finances, and graduation standards.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo
By Brenda F. Berrian
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Critical Africana Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4233 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2318 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4232 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
A hybrid of memoir and history, Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo explores Brenda F. Berrian’s experiences of being both an insider and outsider throughout her global travels and of developing her racial, feminist, and political consciousness as a Black woman along the way.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
The Blackness of Black Key Concepts in Critical Discourse
By William David Hart
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 262 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1588 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5862 2 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1587 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the critical discourse of the blackness of black. In addition to Saidiya Hartman’s axial concept of the “afterlife of slavery,” the book explores Frank Wilderson’s “Afropessimism,” Fred Moten’s “generative blackness,” and Calvin Warren’s “black nihilism.”
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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The Color of Culture
African American Underrepresentation in the Fine Arts and Outdoor Recreation
By Daniel H. Krymkowski
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9788 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7869 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9787 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Daniel H. Krymkowski documents the extent and causes of African American underrepresentation in the cultural realms of golf, hiking, hunting and fishing, water and winter sports, classical music, art, ballet, and theater. He argues racial-ethnic inequality in these areas is extensive and results mainly from historic and contemporary discrimination.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
W. E. B. Du Bois Pioneer American Sociologist
By Robert A. Wortham
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1040 9 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0416 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Robert A. Wortham shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois’s role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his pioneering contributions in the areas of demography, urban and rural sociology, Southern Black Belt studies, and religion and society.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Fragmented Identities of Nigeria Sociopolitical and Economic Crises
Edited by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and Rotimi Omosulu
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0583 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5847 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Studying Nigeria’s sociopolitical and economic crises, this book uses Nigeria as a microcosm of global African identity crises to analyze the ingrained conflicts within multiethnic, multilinguistic, multireligious, and multicultural societies. The book explores Nigeria’s history of colonial exploitation and poor governance to question its future.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies
Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies
Edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1747 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7482 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume explores aspects of gender and sexuality in Kenya through the lens of humane scholarship, philosophies, politics, identities, cosmoses, literatures, languages, cultures, and more.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Transatlantic Liverpool Shades of the Black Atlantic
By Mark Christian Lexington Books
October 2022 • 350 pages • Part of the Critical Africana Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5263 8 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2645 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Written within the perspective of Africana critical studies, this book presents a transatlantic voyage and the depths of historical Black experience in Liverpool, England. The author addresses the narrative of the Black Atlantic propounded by Paul Gilroy and further reveals a firsthand account of a largely hidden aspect of Black British history.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
A Companion to African Rhetoric
Edited by Segun Ige; Gilbert Motsaathebe and Omedi Ochieng
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4765 8 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7665 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Companion to African Rhetoric argues for a holistic view of rhetoric on the continent, gives an outline of what African rhetoric is, and serves as a pivotal anthology with contributions from African, Afro-Caribbean and African American rhetoricians to understanding African rhetoric. Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies
Edited by Martha Donkor and Amoaba Gooden
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2844 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8459 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book studies the diversity of Ghanaian women’s sexual expression in a patriarchal society that prioritizes heteronormativity and analyzes the ways Ghanaian women negotiate the patriarchal system to make meaning of their sexual lives.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Legacies
of Departed African Women Writers Matrix of Creativity and Power
Edited by Helen O. Chukwuma and Chioma Carol Opara
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 360 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1465 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4665 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Legacies of Departed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female writers of contemporary African literature and feminist scholarship, examining the ideologies, thematic concerns, and stylistic devices which constitute the fabrics of the legacies left by these iconic pacesetters.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
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Singing with the Dogon Prophet
By Walter E.A. van Beek; Oumarou S. Ongoiba and Atimè D. Saye
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5425 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4267 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
As one of their great figures, the Dogon of Mali honor Abir?, a singer and prophet from the nineteenth century who composed the principal mourning songs. This book examines how these prophecies and songs form a poignant expression of ethnic Dogon philosophy.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
The Trial of Hissein Habré The International Crimes of a Former Head of State
By Emmanuel Guematcha
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0391 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3928 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book recounts the trial of Hissein Habré, the former Head of State of Chad accused of committing international crimes during his presidency, and examines the impact and significance of the trial.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred A Dialectical Fairy Tale
By Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 362 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3411 5 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning, revealing the dialectical tension therein, and awakening us to the distance between the Dream and our reality, in the light of its continued deferment and its price.
Ethnic Studies / American / General
A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature The Birth of Oppa
By Kyounghoon Lee - Translated by John M. Frankl
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Critical
Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in
Translation series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0628 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6295 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines one of the seminal chapters in the history of the modern Korea. Through an analysis of texts of various genres and types, the author analyzes Japanese colonialism and modernity and its impact on Korean culture and society during the first half of the twentieth century.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu Capturing Cultural Capital
Edited by Gada Kadoda and Sondra Hale - Foreword by Tim Niblock
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 342 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2276 1 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2778 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The book explores the history and evolution of Sudanese thought, knowledge production, and cultural capital from the fifth century to the twenty-first century.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Earth to Tables Legacies
Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures
By Deborah Barndt; Lauren E. Baker and Alexandra Gelis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 256 pages eBook 978 1 5381 2350 8 • $32.00 / £25.00
This visually stunning multimedia book generates conversations about food sovereignty through photo essays and online videos. Using food as an entry to key issues—such as Indigenous-settler relations and antiracism—these audiovisual, educational resources feature food activists who strive for food justice and sovereignty, from earth to tables.
Regional & Ethnic / Central American & South American
The Rise of the Shame Society America’s Change from a Guilt Culture into a Shame Culture
By Marcel H. Van Herpen
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2020 8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4696 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
American society is often characterized as a “guilt culture,” as opposed to non-Western “shame cultures.” But through examples like shaming penalties in criminal law, “fat shaming,” and cyberbullying on the social media, this book shows how and why shame is increasingly invading our lives, leading to feelings of humiliation and depression.
Ethnic Studies / American / General
A Sociology of Hikikomori Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan
By Teppei Sekimizu
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0094 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0958 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
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East Turkistan’s Right to Sovereignty Decolonization and Beyond
By Rukiye Turdush
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2726 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7276 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the people of East Turkistan. The author accuses the Chinese state of settler colonialism and argues for East Turkistan’s sovereignty on the basis of international law and the Genocide Convention.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Pachappa Camp
The First Koreatown in the United States
By Edward T. Chang and Edward T. Chang
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 150 pages • Part of the Korean
Communities across the World series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4518 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5166 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4517 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States proves through new research that Dosan Ahn Chang Ho established the first Koreatown in the United States in Riverside, California in 1905. Pachappa Camp studies the development of the camp and the lives of its residents.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader
Environmental Justice, Development Victimhood, and Resistance
Edited by Samina Luthfa; Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan and Munasir Kamal
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9913 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9146 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume presents the case of environmental humanities of Bangladesh, a developing country that experiences rapid industrialization, urbanization, and ecological degradation victimizing the masses. The book highlights ecocriticism, environmental justice, biodiversity, and politics of development and sustainability.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Tibet as I Knew It
The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
By Tsewang Yishey Pemba
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Studies
in Modern Tibetan Culture series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0856 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8572 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author’s formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Meiji Kabuki Japanese Theater through Foreign Eyes
By Samuel L. Leiter
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 410 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2678 1 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6798 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners during the full Meiji period.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780–1870
By Akira Shimizu
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1826 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8276 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines early modern Japanese society through the lens of food and foodways. The author demonstrates how food empowered peasants, fisherfolks, and ordinary merchants to repeatedly challenge the established regulations for food trade and distribution.
Ethnic
Studies
/ Asian Studies
The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920–1970
A Lord of the Traditional Tibetan State
By Paljor Tsarong
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 476 pages • Part of the Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4177 9 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1786 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the life of an aristocrat official of the traditional precapitalist Tibetan state. The author analyzes his education, civil service career, and political intrigues as well as the fall of the state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation and exile.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Ross Bowden
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1136 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1376 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of the art of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region of New Guinea and how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon, including its origins in the spirit world.
Ethnic Studies / Australian & Oceanian Studies
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Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas Social, Political, and Economic Realities
By Samantha Nogueira Joyce
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4423 7 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4244 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Communes and the Venezuelan State The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis
By Anderson Bean
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Social
Movements in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4084 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0857 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean examines the communal movement in Venezuela, its origins, contradictory relationship to the state, and the challenges it faces amid Venezuela’s largest economic and political crisis.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Indigenous Collective Rights in Latin America The Role of Coalitions, Constitutions, and Party Systems
By Katherine Becerra Valdivia
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0910 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9111 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the processes and causal mechanisms by which recognition of collective rights for indigenous peoples varies wildly across Latin America.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Ireland
Challenges of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
By Curtis C. Holland
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4882 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8839 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Utilizing a critical sociological perspective, this book examines how overlapping class, gender, and spatial inequalities within and across Unionist and Nationalist communities shape processes of identity formation and party politics in Northern Ireland and implications of such processes on community-based peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
Ethnic Studies / European Studies
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government Voices for a Revolution
By Natália Ayo Schmiedecke - Translated by Sheyla Riyadh Weyersbach - Revised by Katie Clarkson and Jessica Galetta
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2285 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2860 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government focuses on the Chilean cultural scene during the Popular Unity government (1970-73), situating the discourses and artistic productions linked to the Chilean New Song movement.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Gang Strategies in the Northern Triangle Coerced Criminality as a Form of Human Trafficking
By Adam Golob
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0979 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 9807 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a novel approach to understanding the dynamics of gang criminality in the Northern Triangle. It maintains that the crimes of gang violence and the crimes of human trafficking intertwine and intersect to perpetuate an environment of trauma, exploitation, and hopelessness that leaves thousands trapped without viable options.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Performing Craft in Mexico Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation
Edited by Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff - Afterword by Ronda Brulotte
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 330 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3997 4 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9981 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Seeing White An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition
By Jean Halley; Amy Eshleman and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4397 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3988 8 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4399 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race is an interdisciplinary, supplemental textbook that challenges students to see race as everyone’s issue. The new edition includes updated evidence, descriptions, stories, and chapters throughout.
Ethnic Studies / General
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The Struggle of Entertainment and Neoliberal Postcolonial Capitalist Politics in “New” Saudi Arabia
The Cultural Production of Modernity in the Global South
By Anas M. Alahmed
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9374 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 3755 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia in transforming the state into a more neoliberal capitalist form of modernity. This book employs postcolonial analysis to examine how the Saudi government has produced and circulated cultural products in society to serve the postcolonial politics of the Global South.
Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies
Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms
By Victoria A. Newsom - Foreword by Sahar Khamis
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 390 pages • Part of the Gender and Activism series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1250 2 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book illustrates how third wave and contemporary forms of feminism function as “contained empowerment.” The author investigates feminist, reproductive rights, and gender-based activisms of the1990s through the present and in contrast with anti-feminist, white supremacist, and structural repressions, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags
By Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4810 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8112 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and in response to the acute crisis of the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic, analyzing the deep histories threaded through its contemporary practice and locating connections through art, literature, and culture.
Feminism & Feminist Theory
The Economies of Queer Inclusion Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda
By S.M. Rodriguez Lexington Books
March 2022 • 150 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8173 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1714 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8172 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Economies of Queer Inclusion explores the formation of relationships between US-based transnational human rights actors and grassroots LGBTI activists in Kampala, Uganda. In doing so, it exposes the unintended consequences of finance-based connections and proposes alternative forms of transnational activism.
Gay Studies
Cherokee Odyssey The Journey from Sovereign to “Civilized”
By Michael P. Morris
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1408 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4092 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines how, during the eighteenth century, the Cherokee transitioned from a sovereign people allied with the British to a nation subjugated to the US government. The author analyzes how the Cherokees fought with both the British and the US Continental Army during this time.
Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism
Voices from the Margins
Edited by Olga Bezhanova and Raysa E. Amador
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1945 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 9433 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1944 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins studies the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and argues that intersectional feminist analysis is essential in discussions of how neoliberal globalization impacts art by female artists and the rights of women from marginalized communities. Feminism & Feminist Theory
Spring Man A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture
By Petr Janeček Lexington Books
November 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1375 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3767 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book traces the creation and circulation of the heroic myth of Spring Man, legendary Czech phantom of the Second World War often described as a superhero who fights against the Nazis, through national and international popular culture from the late 19th through the late 20th century Folklore & Mythology
A Kaleidoscope of Identities Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
By
James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6786 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7878 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6788 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book proffers a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity, presenting data that documents these identities as typical and extensive rather than exceptional. A Kaleidoscope of Identities reveals the more elusive elements of sex, gender, and sexual life which are often difficult to capture in quantifiable variables.
Gender Studies
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American Public Memory and the Holocaust Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations
By
Lisa A. Costello
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 230 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0017 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0158 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0016 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores new media and new stories in Holocaust public memory as powerful agents against a rising tide of global intolerance. Arguing that gender is often absent in traditional medial forms of public memory, Costello illustrates how new forms of memorialization shift our orientation toward others and our engagement with the past.
Gender Studies
Female Friendship Literary and Artistic Explorations
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev; Ida Day and Larry Sheret - Foreword by Ann Jefferson
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0723 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 7247 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.
Gender Studies
Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second Edition
By Brent L. Pickett Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 368 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5044 3 • $165.00 / £127.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0450 0 • $156.50 / £121.00
Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important historical figures, philosophic, artistic, and literary treatments of same-sex love, historical terms, and contemporary events.
Gender Studies
Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media
Edited by Hediye Özkan
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 174 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2384 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3858 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
As a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study on literary and visual representations of woman’s work, this collection examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work to understand the position of working women and the value of her labor in the capitalistic economic systems.
Gender Studies
Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance
Edited by Christina R. Pinkston and Elizabethada A. Wright
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3621 8 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection analyzes the rhetoric used by American Catholic Women of various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes. Taken together, the essays reveal a shared ethos of resisting a powerful institution’s efforts to silence the women.
Gender Studies
Gender Equity Global Policies and Perspectives on Advancing Social Justice
Edited by Elena V. Shabliy; Kimarie Engerman and Dmitry Kurochkin
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 220 pages Hardback 978 1 6669 1447 4 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4481 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide.
Gender Studies
Human Trafficking and the Feminization of Poverty Structural Violence in Cambodia
By Yuko Shimazaki
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 182 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3473 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4719 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3472 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides a comprehensive overview of human trafficking in Cambodia and the mechanisms of poverty in Southeast Asia. By examining personal narratives, the author traces trafficked women’s efforts to liberate themselves from the poverty trap with the aid of external supporting organizations.
Gender Studies
Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy
Edited by Laura A. Gray-Rosendale
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 268 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1114 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1123 3 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1113 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it.
Gender Studies
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Mediated Misogynoir Erasing Black Women’s and Girls’ Innocence in the Public Imagination
By Kalima Young
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0663 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6648 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women’s and Girls’ Innocence in the Public Imagination interrogates contemporary media culture to illuminate the ways the intersections of anti-blackness and misogyny, i.e., misogynoir, converge to obscure public perception of Black women and girls as people with any claim to innocence.
Gender Studies
Self-Made Women in the 1920s United States Literary Trailblazers
By Matthew Niven Teorey
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2832 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8336 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes eleven trailblazing 1920s female authors who wrote counter-narratives to sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. The author brings their novels, poems, plays, film scenarios, and blues lyrics into conversation with each other to show different approaches women could take to become autonomous individuals and full citizens.
Gender Studies
Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam
Dance
An Ethnographic History
By Justine Lemos
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5071 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0726 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mohiniyattam dance is a semeiotic system replete with controversy, embodied gender ideals, and cultural information. Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance: An Ethnographic History examines the emergence of Mohiniyattam dance in relation to its historical and cultural context with a particular focus on the semiotics of femininity.
Gender Studies
How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict
By James K. Beggan
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0783 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7841 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author examines the meaning that dogs have for people as friends and family members. This almost magical interspecies connection, which relates to philosophical concepts about the moral responsibility human beings have to dogs, can increase social conflict between people because of differences in how people care for their dogs.
General
Queering Philosophy
By Kim Q. Hall
Rowman & Littlefield International
June 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 0941 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 9427 7 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0943 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ideal for courses in philosophy and gender, sexuality, race and disability studies, Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory and philosophy. This accessible and important book advances a queer feminist critique.
Gender Studies
The Pivot of Civilization
By Margaret Sanger - Foreword by Peter C. Engelman
Humanities Press
May 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Classics in Women’s Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5036 8 • $29.99 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 5381 0375 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots
Gender Studies
Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life
By Patrick Gamsby
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0097 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0989 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book assembles the fragments of Henri Lefebvre’s unrealized sociology of boredom and explores the sociohistorical and spatial conditions and contradictions of boredom and everyday life in the modern world.
General
Aging and the Life Course Social and Cultural Contexts
By Deborah Lowry
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4324 7 • $170.00 / £131.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3254 4 • $79.00 / £61.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4326 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
This book provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the study of aging and the life course from a distinctly sociological perspective. It explores the sociocultural dimensions of aging while encouraging critical thinking about the diversity of aging experiences, societal attitudes toward older adults the politics and economics of growing old, and end-of-life resources.
Gerontology
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Convivencia Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town
By Martin Lundsteen Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1452 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7866 4537 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes the local-global transformation of migration and societies in a small Catalan town through a multi-scalar ethnography, connecting the local processes of space- and place-making with the more extensive processes of migration, economic crisis and social transformation, and finally, the socio-political responses to these changes.
Human Geography
Ecocriticism and the Island Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
By Pippa Marland
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Rethinking the Island series
Hardback 978 1 7866 0708 9 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 7866 7096 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative nonfiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
Human Geography
The Foundation of Australia’s Capital Cities Geology, Landscape, and Urban Character
By Anthony Webster Lexington Books
March 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9795 1 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7968 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Foundation of Australia’s Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia’s seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments, resulting in development patterns than have persisted today.
Earth Sciences / Geography
Archaeology of Colonisation From Aesthetics to Biopolitics
By Carlos Rivera-Santana Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4797 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9007 7 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0901 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.
Indigenous Studies
Digital Peripheries Internet and Socio-spatial Practices in the Rurban
By Lorena Melgaço
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 0960 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 9618 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial practices and the late introduction of internet in three marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an open theory of the connected rurban.
Human Geography
North Korean Defectors in Diaspora Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements
Edited by HaeRan Shin
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5149 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1501 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection investigates the mobilities, resettlement practices, and identities of North Korean defectors who have relocated to the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
Human Geography
Polyamorous Elders Aging in Open
Relationships
By Kathy Labriola
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6926 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9278 8 • $42.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6928 5 • $40.00 / £31.99
This book bridges the gap in research on elders in long-term polyamorous relationships and allows these unusual elders to tell the stories of the unique challenges and significant advantages of their relationships in their own words.
Human Sexuality
Re-Indigenizing Ecological Consciousness and the Interconnectedness to Indigenous Identities
Edited by Michelle Montgomery
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Paperback 978 1 6669 1104 6
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 1022 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1103 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The authors of this book share the diversity and complexities of the Indigenous context of worldviews, examining relationships between humans and other living beings within an eco-conscious lens, showing that we belong not only to a human community, but to a community of all nature as well.
Indigenous Studies
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Goliath as Gentle Giant Sympathetic Portrayals in Popular Culture
By Jonathan L. Friedmann Lexington Books
January 2022 • 168 pages • Part of the Jewish
Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0469 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4703 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Goliath as Gentle Giant cuts through biblical biases and post-biblical images and considers sensitive and more nuanced portrayals of the giant in popular media, offering revisionist retellings of Goliath that challenge readers to humanize the “other.”
Jewish Studies
Judging Jewish Identity in the United States
By Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2303 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3049 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book analyzes how concepts of race and religion were interpreted in the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, the first case to provide race-based legal protection to American Jews. The author examines how the judges viewed the White-perceived Jews as well as the congregants’ reactions and embodied experiences.
Jewish Studies
Imagining LatinX Intimacies Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and Sexualities
By Edward A. Chamberlain Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4824 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4322 2 • $142.00 / £109.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1433 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.
LGBT Studies / General
Queering Italian Media
Edited by Sole Anatrone and Julia Heim
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1612 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6104 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1611 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Queering Italian Media offers queer readings of LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian media. The contributors discuss the relationship between the political and social lives of queer populations in Italy and investigate their representations in film, news media, television, social media, and viewer-generated media sites.
LGBT Studies / General
Jews in Popular Science Fiction Marginalized in the Mainstream
Edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0145 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1467 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume analyzes Jewish tropes in popular science fiction including Star Trek, Marvel, and other top franchises. The essays examine representations of Jewish characters and culture in the genre that range from poignant metaphor to banal tokenism.
Jewish Studies
Negotiating Identities
Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE–600 CE)
Edited by Karin Hedner Zetterholm; Anders Runesson; Cecilia Wassén and Magnus Zetterhol
Fortress Academic October 2022 • 626 pages • Part of the Coniectanea Biblica series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1473 1 • $165.00 / £127.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4748 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
Relying on archaeological remains and ancient sources, this book describes important identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the formation of group identities.
Jewish Studies
Mental Health Practice with LGBTQ+ Children, Adolescents, and Emerging Adults in Multiple Systems of Care
Edited by Cristina L. Magalhães; Richard A. Sprott and G. Nic Rider Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 400 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5446 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4472 2 • $58.00 / £45.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5448 9 • $55.00 / £42.00
This book is a practical text for coursework in counseling and social work programs, as well as a professional resource for practicing social workers and counselors and professionals in related fields such as public health, education, social services, and political/social advocacy. LGBT Studies / General
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging
By Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski; J. E. Sumerau and Nik M. Lampe
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 106 pages • Part of the Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1636 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6340 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1635 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging explores the experience and negotiation of sex, gender, and sexual health and aging over time and in relation to U.S. healthcare norms.
LGBT Studies / General
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Trans Identities in the French Media Representation, Visibility, Recognition
Edited by Romain Chareyron
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0025 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0262 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of essays reflects on the questions of trans visibility and recognition in a French context through engagement in media analysis.
LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies
Collecting the Revolution British Engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution Material Culture
Trans Men in the South Becoming Men
By Baker A. Rogers
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0035 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0332 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0034 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through the voices of 51 trans men, Baker A. Rogers analyzes what it means to be a trans man in the southeastern United States. Rogers argues that the common themes that pervade trans men’s experiences in the South are complicated by other intersecting identities, such as sexuality, religion, race, class, and place.
LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies
Algorithmic Culture
How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Are Transforming Everyday Life
By
Emily R. Williams Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5067 2 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0689 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Collecting the Revolution is an exploration of British engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution material culture from 1966 to the present. It examines the ways in which the Cultural Revolution and Chinese Communism more broadly was understood, mediated, and represented through its art, propaganda, and material culture.
Material Culture
American Boarding School Fiction, 1981–2021 Inclusion and Scandal
By Alexander H. Pitofsky
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0193 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 0 7618 3808 8 • $30.00 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 6669 0194 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. It discusses a new generation of writers who have made American school fiction far more inclusive and wide-ranging than it was in the era dominated by best sellers such as J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace.
Media Studies
Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness Dissolving the Boundary between Digital and Physical Life
By B. C. Bouchillon
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2213 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2143 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book considers the importance of communication technology that allows users to become socially competent in ways that transcend digital and physical modes of communication.
Media Studies
Edited by Stefka Hristova; Jennifer Daryl Slack and Soonkwan Hong Lexington Books
May 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3575 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5730 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3574 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data are reshaping everyday culture, while at the same time perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. It situates issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity.
Media Studies
Autonomous Art Institutions Artists Disrupting the Creative City
By Alberto Cossu
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1602 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4303 3 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1603 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the current wave of artistic activism by looking at the way in which theirantagonism may lead to the creation of autonomous artistic institutions.
Media Studies
Dragon’s Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity
By MJ Clarke
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3603 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book revives a neglected video game classic through a critical examination of its design, its makers, its recording medium, and its imagery. The investigation of these facets reveals a game shaped by the demands of its context and is instructive for contemporary debates in media studies.
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Existential Science Fiction
By Ryan Lizardi Lexington Books
January 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4735 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media and their influence on society’s conceptions of humanity. These media texts manifest abstract concepts in a genre that has historically focused on exploring new ideas and frontiers, creating powerful media that helps audiences contemplate their existence as human beings.
Media Studies
Here Comes the Flood Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave
Edited by Marcy L. Tanter and Moisés Park
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3630 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6317 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, showing how the lines of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in Hallyu productions are often blurred to be palatable to Korean audiences or clarified to attract global audiences.
Media Studies
Interactive Media and Society
By Corinne M. Dalelio
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3300 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3019 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Drawing on the academic literature and real-world examples, this book details the impacts of interactive media in various sectors of American society. The aim is to provide the reader with a set of applicable principles and practical tips for understanding and navigating these changes, now and into the future.
Media Studies
Japanese Role-Playing Games
Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie PelletierGagnon
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4354 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3551 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.
Media Studies
Fake News in an Era of Social Media Tracking Viral Contagion
Edited by Yasmin Ibrahim and Fadi Safieddine Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4815 0 • $44.95 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4216 6 • $142.00 / £109.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1422 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
In this book, the authors examine factors influencing the spread of fake news, and suggest ways to combat it by exploring the key elements which enable and facilitate this phenomenon.
Media Studies
Homeless Voices Stigma, Space, and Social Media
By Mary L. Schuster
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 266 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3570 9 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5716 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that the best sources for how to address the issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly through their personal blogs and memoirs. Moreover, the author examines how stigmatization, metaphorical language, and spatial segregation relating to homelessness serve as tools for systemic oppression.
Media Studies
Italian Americans on Screen Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future
Edited by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. Gravano
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Media, Culture, and the Arts series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1156 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1543 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1155 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book challenges past definitions of Italian American cinema and media studies by introducing fresh critical models into the discourse. Proposing new intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, contributors establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen.
Media Studies
Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming
Edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen; Zhuojun Joyce Chen and Nicole Allaire
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 178 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1543 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5411 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1542 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses a critical lens to discuss live stream uses and misuses, as well as the impacts of live streaming on various fields. In the landscape of the historical evolution of communication technologies, this volume opens up a new space for discussing legal and ethical issues associated with the use of live streaming.
Media Studies
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Making Time for Digital Lives Beyond Chronotopia
Edited by Anne Kaun; Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier
Rowman & Littlefield International
June 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4985 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 2977 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1298 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This collection explores theories of time in the digital world and examines whether the ontology of data resists slowness and how the digital revolution promised a leveling of the playing field. Assessing the emerging initiatives of slowing down, this book investigates the role of the digital in ultimately reinforcing neo-liberal temporalities.
Media Studies
Media Is Us Understanding Communication and Moving beyond Blame
By Elizaveta Friesem Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 166 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7407 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 0511 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5052 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Exploring the nature of modern media, Friesem uses the fundamental principles of human communication to move away from the fear and blame that usually accompany discussions of new media technologies. The book employs the ACE model (from Awareness to Collaboration through Empathy) to build media literacy across professions and academic disciplines.
Media Studies
Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media Performativity, Ritual, and Representation
By Carly Gieseler
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0250 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2518 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media traces the emergence and evolution of milestone celebrations in the digital era, from social media spectacles like promposals and gender-reveals to closure commemorations like divorce parties and living wakes.
Media Studies
Netflix’s Speculative Fictions
Financializing Platform Television
By Colin Jon Mark Crawford
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 132 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2530 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5281 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2529 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This monograph offers a close reading of the financial story of Netflix, exposing the central importance of narrativity, performative language, and affect, which drive the speculative worlds of global finance, technology, and now television.
Media Studies
Media and Participation in Post-Migrant
Societies
Edited by Tanja Thomas; Merle‐Marie Kruse and Miriam Stehling
Rowman & Littlefield International
October 2022 • 300 pages
Paperback 978 1 7866 0727 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 7256 6 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0726 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming in the research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrant conditions to the discussion – both as conceptual refinements and as empirical studies.
Media Studies
Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya
By Jacinta
Mwende Maweu
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 128 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1235 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2366 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya examines the interplay between the media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya. The author argues that politicians in Kenya and other deeply divided societies in Africa use mainstream and digital media to weaponize ethnicity as they invoke issues of belonging, inclusion, and exclusion.
Media Studies
Misogyny across Global Media
Edited by Maria B. Marron
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Communicating Gender series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0623 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6211 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0622 8 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book analyzes global media representations of misogyny—including sexual harassment, rape, and even murder—to discuss the systemic nature of misogyny and the evils perpetrated against women across the world as a result.
Media Studies
Not Playing Around Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport
Edited by Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito; Tracy Everbach and Karen Weiller-Abels
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5467 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4687 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book reveals how sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Each chapter delves into how those identities—such as race, gender, disability, and sexuality—have developed and influenced social change.
Media Studies
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Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and Brand Communication
Edited by Brandi Watkins
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 208 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1363 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3615 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1362 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines social media influencers as brand communicators. Each chapter represents a unique theoretical and methodological approach to examining the emergence of the growing legitimacy of influencer brand communication from a variety of perspectives and contexts.
Media Studies
Researching Creativity in Media Industries
By Mads Møller T. Andersen
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 116 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0169 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1702 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
Creative production processes are central to all media industries, and there is a need for more detailed understandings of how these industries facilitate and understand their own creativity. This book offers a theoretical framework to consider how researchers can conduct studies of creativity in different media industries.
Media Studies
South Korea’s Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution
By Brian Yecies and Ae-Gyung Shim Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5338 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6358 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0636 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons—also known as webcomics—and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them.
Media Studies
Supranational Horrors
Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968
By Rui M. Trindade Oliveira
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 258 pages • Part of the Lexington
Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5434 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4359 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the parallels between Italian and Spanish horror cinemas including the cultural features they share, their ability to define distinct identities within the genre, and what the author terms ‘ItalianSpanishness.’
Media Studies
Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers
Edited by Brandi Watkins
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1366 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3646 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1365 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes social media influencers and their relationship with their online followers. Each chapter represents a unique theoretical and methodological approach to examining the importance of this relationship from a variety of perspectives and contexts.
Media Studies
Social Media, Technology, and New Generations Digital Millennial Generation and Generation Z
Edited by Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. Ashlock
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5070 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0710 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines millennials and Generation Z in the context of media and visual culture, considering three interrelated areas: how millennials and Gen Z use new media technologies in different contexts; what they do with media; and the relationship between media and the two generations that make up their target audience.
Media Studies
Stereotypes of Muslim Women in the United States Media
Primes and Consequences
By Alexis Tan and Anastasia Vishnevskaya
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 144 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2835 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8367 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents evidence that verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices towards Muslim women in the United State and that social liberals, not social conservatives, can control activation. Authors suggest media and intrapersonal interventions to mitigate the harmful consequences of gendered Islamophobia.
Media Studies
The Transmedia Construction of the Black Panther
Long Live the King
By Bryan J. Carr
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3183 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1848 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the Black Panther character’s multimedia legacy against the backdrop of contemporary sociopolitical reality. The author critically analyzes the character’s role as a counter-narrative to regressive attitudes toward Africa and Black identity, as well as how he represents consolidated media reality.
Media Studies
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The Visual Cultures of Childhood Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers
By Karen Wells
Rowman & Littlefield International
October 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4823 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 1031 1 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1104 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.
Media Studies
Of Boys and Men Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
By Richard Reeves
Brookings Institution Press
September 2022 • 256 pages
eBook 978 0 8157 3988 3 • $28.99 / £21.99
Men’s Studies
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science
Edited by David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 496 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6614 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6154 4 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6616 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Critical juncture theory seeks to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading practitioners offer the first coordinated effort to define this field, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future.
Methodology
Reciprocity Rules
Friendship
and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters
Edited by Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund (Ned) Searles
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9296 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 2949 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9295 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are essential to responsible research and efforts to decolonize anthropology.
Methodology
To See and
Be
Seen The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images
By T. J. Thomson
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 186 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4802 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 2816 6 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1282 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
To See and Be Seen considers some of the ideological, aesthetic, pragmatic, institutional, cultural, commercial, environmental, and psychological forces that consciously or otherwise shape the production of news images and subsequently influence their reception.
Media Studies
Perverse Feelings Poe and American Masculinity
By Suzanne Ashworth
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2652 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6530 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Perverse Feelings examines white masculinity in Poe’s fiction and the culture it represents. Poe’s men are tormented by ugly emotions. As it analyzes these afflictions, the book illuminates the pathologies of a past American masculinity. Just as importantly, it reminds us that “toxic masculinity” has a history.
Men’s Studies
Multispecies Ethnography Methodology of a Holistic Research Approach of Humans, Animals, Nature, and Culture
By Katharina Ameli
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1192 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1930 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book extends the ethnographic approach to animals and animate and inanimate natures. The focus is on developing a method suitable for holistic and interdisciplinary research, and to fulfill this goal, elements of Human-Animal Studies and NaturesCultures are combined and Indigenous approaches are incorporated.
Methodology
Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media
Edited by Whitney Hardin and Julia E. Kiernan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4831 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8327 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The chapters analyze the ways that narratives of disability are framed not only by worldviews but also by the media which structure and inform them.
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A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan
Edited by Claire Parkinson and Isabelle Labrouillère
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5251 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan’s films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan’s body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director’s auteur status.
Popular Culture
A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg
Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9361 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3595 5 • $128.00 / £98.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9360 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of Steven Spielberg is written by some of the top scholars working in fields ranging from philosophy and art to history and film studies. The chapters illuminate for scholars and fans the entire artistic career of Steven Spielberg.
Popular Culture
Antiheroines of Contemporary Media Saints, Sinners, and Survivors
Edited by Melanie Haas; N. A. Pierce and Gretchen Busl
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2458 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4567 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2457 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the sociopolitical discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.
Popular Culture
Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest Reconstructing the Mississippi River
By Michael O. Johnston
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0877 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8787 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a vivid portrait of place and identity as it exists in today’s US rural landscape and uses the interstate Tug Fest festival in the Midwest to explore the complex interactions of humans and environment.
Popular Culture
A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick
Edited by Elsa Colombani
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1378 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3769 9 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1377 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick provides an in-depth analysis of the director’s work and offers an enriching view of the historical, philosophical, theoretical, artistic, and cinematic dimensions of his films. The eighteen chapters in this book provide innovative readings of Kubrick’s oeuvre that will surely spark new discussions.
Popular Culture
A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam
Edited by Sabine Planka; Philip van der Merwe and Ian Bekker - Afterword by Karen Randell
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1225 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of this Terry Gilliam’s oeuvre and artistic practice as a director whose films weave avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique together
Popular Culture
Better Living through TV Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation
Edited by Steven A. Benko
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3618 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6195 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The essays in this collection analyze a variety of contemporary television shows to argue for the role that TV plays in moral identity formation. Audiences take from television viewing a better sense of what matters to them, ways of relating to others, and a moral sense of the world they inhabit.
Popular Culture
Deindustrialisation
By Giacomo Bottà
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4827 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 7379 9 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0738 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
The book offers a new and unique point of view on industrial cities and their popular music cultures based on interdisciplinary research and methods
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and Popular Music Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere
Gothic Mash-Ups Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic
Storytelling
Edited by Natalie Neill
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3657 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6584 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.
Popular Culture
Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials Identity, Reception, and Politics
By Priscilla Hobbs
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2027 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0286 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the lessons learned from Harry’s adventures became a moral compass and a guiding light for millennial readers in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony.
Popular Culture
Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher
Edited by Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Education and Popular Culture series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4786 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7870 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner’s oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costner’s works.
Popular Culture
Rape in Period Drama
Television
Consent, Myth, and Fantasy
By Katherine Byrne and Julie Anne Taddeo
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2585 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5861 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rape in Period Drama Television considers the representation of rape and rape myths as well as the audience response to it in a range of the most influential television period dramas of recent years.
Popular Culture
Grief
in Contemporary Horror Cinema Screening Loss
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3393 4 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3941 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines bereavement as it appears in horror films of the last two decades. This book addresses global hits such as Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook as well as lauded arthouse films such as Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Ari Aster’s Midsommar.
Popular Culture
Japanese Idols Go to China Cultural Adaptation and Nationalism
By Xiaofei Tu and Wei Xie
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0817 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8185 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book situates Chinese acceptance of Japanese popular culture— specifically the intriguing and sometimes awkward relationship between AKB48 and SNH48—within the broader context of nationalist ideology and international relations in East Asia.
Popular Culture
Media Representations of Retail Work in America
By Brittany R. Clark
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0638 7 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6394 4 • $45.00 / £30.99
Media Representations of Retail Work in America examines the ways in which retail workers have been portrayed in popular culture texts from the early 20th century to the 21st century.
Popular Culture
Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements
Edited by Shearon Roberts
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 386 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0403 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4019 9 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0402 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
This collection analyzes the way that the Walt Disney Company has co-opted contemporary social discourse and studies how the current Disney era reflects changes in a global society where audiences are empowered by new media and social justice movements.
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Reclaiming the Tomboy The Body, Representation, and Identity
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond; Jennifer Harrison and Holly Wells
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2294 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2952 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, this collection is an unabashed celebration of her rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation pays tribute to tomboys of the past, present, and (hopefully) future.
Popular Culture
Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls Watch It!
By Karima K. Jeffrey - Foreword by Hoda M. ZakiAfterword by Trudier Harris
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2703 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7049 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines twentieth and twenty-first century speculative fiction films that represent women and girls of African descent Jeffrey offers insights about positive developments while calling attention to questionable trends in recent movie-making.
Popular Culture
The Evil Twins of American Television Feminist Alter Egos since 1960
By Kristi Rowan Humphreys
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 138 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8331 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3299 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8330 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the “schizophrenic split” theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.
Popular Culture
The Scientist in Popular Culture
Playing God and Working Wonders
Edited by Rebecca Janicker
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3303 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3040 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection examines how scientists are represented in popular screen media, from blockbuster films and biopics to television drama. Contributors argue that across horror, science fiction, crime drama, and comedy, these fictional scientists embody the hopes and fears associated with real-life science.
Popular Culture
Social Movements and the Collective Identity of the Star Trek Fandom Boldly Going Where No Fans Have Gone Before
By David G. LoConto
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0702 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7003 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0701 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
David G. LoConto explores the development of the Star Trek fandom through a social psychological approach, using symbolic interaction theory and strategic ritualization theory as well as ideas from Habermas and Foucault to track the fandom’s movements, values, and evolution.
Popular Culture
The Anthropocene and the Undead Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
Edited by Simon Bacon
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 276 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2582 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5830 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.
Popular Culture
The Human in Superhuman The Power of the Sidekick in Popular Culture
Edited by Sandra Eckard and Alex Romagnoli
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0694 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6952 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the role of sidekicks in superhero narratives, offering insight into their contribution to the hero’s journey and growth through the use of distinctly human qualities like compassion, empathy, or courage.
Popular Culture
Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/ heroine
By Laura Mattoon D’Amore
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3062 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0605 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3061 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.
Popular Culture
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Woke Cinderella
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations
Edited
by Suzy Woltmann
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2596 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5946 6 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2595 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines contemporary “Cinderella” fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess has been updated for the 21st century. Using wokeness as a theoretical lens, it analyzes the “Cinderella” story’s potentiality as a social gauge for how we construe gender, sex, agency, and power.
Popular Culture
Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker An Analysis of Media Representations
By Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6514 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5157 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book considers sex worker representation in the news, where the public draws their understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Using New Zealand as a case study, the author encourages emerging acceptability based on neoliberal postfeminist discourses of choice, desire, authenticity, and personal responsibility.
Prostitution & Sex Trade
Crossing Racial Borders
The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern
Edited by Lenita Perrier and Luis Martínez Andrade Lexington Books
June 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences series Hardback 978 1 6669 1264 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2654 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this book focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns’ praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. By delinking from coloniality of power, the book exposes the coexistence of power differentials trapped by Western doxa.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Edited by Korey Tillman; David R. Dickens and C.C. Herbison
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4318 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3193 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory by presenting the work of marginalized theorists of color, including authors from African American, Afro-Caribbean, Latinx, Asian, Asian American, and Native American backgrounds.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate A Gender-Based Approach to Regulating Inegalitarian Pornography
By Lynn Mills Eckert
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 244 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7262 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2606 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7261 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
By examining the highly contested legal debate about the regulation of pornography through an epistemic lens, this book analyzes competing claims about the proper role of speech in our society, pornography’s harm, the relationship between speech and equality, and whether law should regulate and, if so, upon what grounds.
Pornography
Beyond Equity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution
Recentering the Profession
Edited by S.Y. Bowland; Hasshan Batts; Beth Roy and Mary Adams Trujillo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the ACR
Practitioner’s Guide series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6437 2 • $120.00 / £92.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 4389 9 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6439 6 • $33.00 / £25.00
This ground-breaking resource is for anyone, of any race or heritage, who stands ready to make progress toward equity and justice, by offering a creative vision and a practical blueprint for an inclusive, multicultural future for all those involved in conflict transformation, community mediation, and peace building.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Ethics and Race Past and Present Intersections and Controversies
By Naomi Zack
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6671 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6727 7 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6673 4 • $30.00 / £22.99
Ethics and Race introduces historical and contemporary conceptions of race through ideas and events and provides an ethical foundation for students to critically engage these issues in the classroom and in their lives. The book features short chapters of jargon-free writing with discussion questions and a glossary.
Race & Ethnic
Relations
The Dark Side of Reform Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity
Edited by Tyrell Connor and Daphne M. Penn
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4375 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3766 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Dark Side of Reform contains nine chapters on the development of social policies with the potential to advance racial equity. The volume also offers recommendations for implementing policies that address the unique concerns of structurally disadvantaged communities—with particular emphasis on Black and Latinx people.
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Neglected Social Theorists of Color Deconstructing the Margins
The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity On the Racial Sidelines
By Kavitha Koshy
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4372 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3735 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines is a provocative and lively book about Indian immigrant racialization, emerging racial subjectivity, and the potential for decolonial, anti-racist work.
Race
& Ethnic Relations
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies
By Ana Croegaert
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2308 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3065 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2307 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book studies refugee migration through the experiences of Bosnian women displaced by the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia and analyzes themes of gender, performance, political economy, and citizenship in women’s diverse postwar lives.
Refugees
Building
Global
Labor Solidarity
Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States
By Kim Scipes
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 312 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3152 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1503 3 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3151 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
This collection of essays by Kim Scipes explores efforts to build global labor solidarity from the bottom up through analyses of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and contemporary initiatives.
Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Environmental Sociology Risk and Sustainability in Modernity
By Cristiano Luis Lenzi
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 202 pages
Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.
Sociology / General
White Belongings Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By Scott Burnett
Lexington
Books
July 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5494 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4953 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
White Belongings critically deconstructs everyday white discourses of the land in South Africa at a time of increasing stridency and defensiveness over restitution and reform, showing how articulating environmental stewardship and belonging are interwoven with asserting ownership and control.
Race & Ethnic Relations
The Blaming and Shaming of Defenseless Victims in America’s Rape Culture
By Lisa R. Smith
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2709 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7100 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book explores the ways collective memory, religion, and sexist beliefs are used to silence sexual assault survivors and protect the powerful. It delves into how justice is denied in sexual assault cases and why and how American society is perpetuating and protecting a dangerous culture of sexual violence.
Sexual Abuse & Harassment
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality
By Lawrence M. Eppard; Mark Robert Rank and Heather E. Bullock - With Noam Chomsky; Henry A. Giroux; David Brady and Dan Schubert Lehigh University Press
March 2022 • 302 pages
Paperback 978 1 6114 6236 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6114 2340 0 • $121.00 / £93.00
eBook 978 1 6114 6235 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
In Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality, the authors argue that a culture of individualism in the U.S. limits the pressure politicians face to develop robust social policies. This individualism combines with racism and features of the political system to help perpetuate high levels of poverty and inequality.
Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations
By Patrick L. Schmidt
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 264 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6828 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8295 5 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6830 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons’s obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior.
Sociology / General
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Personal Sociology Finding Meanings in Everyday Life
By Jeffrey E. Nash
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5158 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1594 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Personal Sociology, Jeffrey E. Nash transforms everyday experiences into sociological insights and understandings. Through eight chapters in three thematic sections, personal sociology is illustrated by the author’s reflections on activities from his own life that expand these particular experiences into broader sociological concepts.
Sociology / General
Groundwater Citizenship Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer
By Brock Ternes - Foreword by Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander Thomas Lexington Books
January 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Studies in
Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0346 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3478 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Based on surveys with over 850 participants, this book explores the ways in which well ownership shapes people’s beliefs and actions about water in Kansas. The author frames well owners as a community pivotal to safeguarding aquifers that is defined by their understanding of drought and reliance on aquifers.
Sociology / Rural
Urbanormativity Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life
By Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas Lexington Books
March 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series Paperback 978 1 4985 9704 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7029 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9703 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Urbanormativity examines the reality, representation, and consequences of living amid a cultural ideology that privileges urban over rural people and communities. The book analyzes and challenges the complex processes that work to devalue the rural and advocates for a rural justice ethic that reverses the present course.
Sociology / Rural
Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy
By Jack Fong
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2044 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0422 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2043 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect one’s ability to purpose existence with selfauthored meaning.
Sociology / Social Theory
Please Scream Quietly A Story of Kink
By Julie L. Fennell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6875 2 • $120.00 / £92.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 8769 9 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6877 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
Please Scream Quietly is the collective autobiography of the BDSM subculture, showing how it teaches members to cherish their kinky identities and experiences. Using a wide variety of information collected by a self-identified kinkster and professional sociologist, it tells the story of how people live and love in this misunderstood subculture.
Sociology / General
The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture All Too Familiar
By Karen E. Hayden
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 134 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Paperback 978 1 4985 4762 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7604 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 4761 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Karen E. Hayden explores how the rural other became linked to evolutionary theories that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. Using popular culture depictions of the rural primitive, Hayden shows that the message of rurality is clear: if society resists modernization and urbanization, degeneracy, primitivism, and an overall devolution will occur.
Sociology / Rural
A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology Object, Method, Findings, and Applications
By Carlos Belvedere
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0610 3 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6110 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book outlines, for the first time in its history, the program of phenomenological sociology as a science of the natural attitude of groups. The claim is that phenomenological sociology exists as a matter of fact in the long-held, pre-reflective practices of classical and contemporary social thinkers.
Sociology / Social Theory
Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics
By Sara Kärkkäinen Terian
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 130 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2852 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 8503 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2851 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics examines prejudice not merely as a negative attitude toward others but as a general orientation that enables perception and understanding.
Sociology / Social Theory
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Sociology in Post-Normal Times
By Charles Thorpe
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2597 7 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5984 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity.
Sociology / Social Theory
Dance Music Spaces Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism
By Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on Music and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 0754 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7553 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using a concept she calls authenticity maneuvering to explain how clubs, clubbers, and DJs navigate authenticity, branding, and commercialism, Danielle Hidalgo argues that the strategic use of a rave ethos bolsters acceptance in dance music spaces while also making commercial practices less visible or problematic.
Sociology / Urban
Neoliberalism, Postmodernity, and the Contemporary Memorial-Building Boom
By Nicola Clewer Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1299 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 3004 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Clewer explores the various ways the sublime is manifest in contemporary memorial architecture as well as its philosophical and political implications. She shows how the national monument is being transformed at a time when the nation-state and national identity are under extreme scrutiny.
Sociology / Urban
New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History
Sociocultural Alternatives
Edited by David W. Kim - Foreword by Eileen Barker
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Ethnographies of Religion series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3404 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4023 3 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3403 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
The new religious movements (NRMs) of Modern Asia commonly offered a new way of hope for enduring the socio-political situation of colonial life. This volume explores particular cases in relation to the aspects of origin, identity, transnational activity, text, hybrid conditions, religionized politics, geopolitical exchange, and millennialism.
Sociology of Religion
Community in Urban–Rural Systems Theory, Planning, and Development
By Gregory M. Fulkerson
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 194 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1753 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 7543 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fulkerson provides a contemporary, in-depth understanding of communities that is useful for research, planning, and development purposes. His approach incorporates and builds on the urban-rural dynamics approach centered on the urban-rural system concept, making it relevant to urban and rural scholars.
Sociology / Urban
Everyday People Save the Planet and So Can You A Qualitative Examination of Green Lifestyles in Lowcountry South Carolina
By Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1616 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6173 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines three interview studies conducted over the last two decades with green parents, choice utility bike commuters, and necessity utility bike commuters. The book looks at how advocates and policy makers can enable pro-environmental behavior in people’s everyday lives.
Sociology / Urban
The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality
Ethnographic Case Studies of Global Cities
Edited by Angela Storey; Megan Sheehan and Jessica Bodoh-Creed
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1066 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0645 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1065 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores urban inequality through detailed case studies. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this edited collection demonstrate the power of multidisciplinary ethnographic research to illustrate how inequalities affect city residents worldwide.
Sociology / Urban
The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society
By Robert E. Parker
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2552 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5533 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the measurement efforts of several government agencies responsible for some of the most widely watched social indicators on unemployment, life expectancy, crime, and population. It argues these official statistics are dubious at best, not so much objective barometers of social life but socially-constructed metrics. Statistics
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Amazon
At the Intersection of Culture and Capital
Edited by Paul Smith; Alexander Monea and Maillim Santiago
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6522 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5232 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book’s critical analyses of Amazon.com trace the political economy of the platform, the practices of resistance that laborers and activists have employed against it, the broader cultural impacts it has had on everyday life, and its broader environmental impacts on the world.
Technology Studies
The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement and Discourses of Energy Justice
By Jesse P. Van Gerven
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2045 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0460 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study analyzes anti-nuclear power organizations’ claims regarding public financing for new nuclear construction, issues associated with the management of high-level radioactive waste, and other campaigns to increase the safety of nuclear facilities. This leads the author to the identification of general principals of energy justice.
Technology Studies
Inequality & Violence in the United States Casualties of Capitalism, Third Edition
By Barbara H. Chasin
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 382 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1354 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3552 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
While mass shootings make headlines, the more routine effects of corporate and government decisions on our well-being are downplayed. This book analyzes how economic and political inequalities lead to forms of violence that routinely cause harm.
Violence in Society
Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative
By Shira Birnbaum
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2305 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3034 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2304 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
A narrative analysis of memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single family, this book examines strategies of self-preservation and resilience in young people exposed to persecution at different ages and life stages. It argues that holocaust-era stories can enhance understanding of today’s child refugees.
Violence in Society
Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age
Edited by Michael Boylan and Wanda Teays
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6074 9 • $140.00 / £108.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0756 6 • $49.00 / £38.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6076 3 • $47.00 / £36.00
Today’s unprecedented power of computing and AI makes technology’s impact on society an essential area of ethical inquiry. This book investigates the relationship between technology and nature, ownership of technology, AI’s replacement of human functions, privacy and cybersecurity, and the ethics of self-driving cars and drone warfare.
Technology Studies
Guns 360 Differing Perspectives and Common-Sense Approaches to Firearms in America
Edited by Eric S. See; Christopher M. Bellas and Sarah A. See Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 472 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4067 3 • $80.00 / £62.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0680 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Guns 360 takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and commonsense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control.
Violence in Society
Sociocide Reflections on Today’s Wars
By Keith Doubt
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 100 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2386 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3843 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2385 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through the lens of a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of today’s wars, focusing on war crimes, scapegoating, torture, and capitalism.
Violence in Society
Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Feminism and Diaspora
Edited by Amritjit Singh; Robin E. Field and Samina Najmi
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5617 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6187 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the fiction of South Asian American writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and her aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness. Two interviews and an essay by Divakaruni offer indispensable insights into the formal, sociopolitical, and thematic concerns of this multifaceted artist.
Women’s Studies
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Modern Day Mary Poppins The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work
By Laura Bunyan
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1978 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9761 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1977 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Modern Day Mary Poppins explores the experiences of female nannies and their employers. Laura Bunyan analyzes hiring and employment practices and the varied views on these practices and experiences of nanny work.
Women’s Studies
Representing Latina/x Reproductive DecisionMaking
By Melissa Huerta
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2697 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6981 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts. Close analyses of Teatro Luna, Jane the Virgin, Vida, Quinceañera and Favianna Rodriguez’s artwork serve as case studies offering a refreshing way to visualize, interpret, and hear Latina/x reproductive decisions.
Women’s Studies
The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America Only White Women Get Pregnant
By Kimberly C. Harper
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 158 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Health Communication series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0144 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1421 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0143 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book discusses existing problems with Black maternal health and the rhetorical implications of ethos in American society.
Women’s Studies
MotherScholars’ Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance
By Megan Reister
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4843 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
MotherScholars’ Perceptions shares how MotherScholars have achieved success, even amidst a global pandemic—both in redefining their identity and in achieving some semblance of the mythical work-family balance. Readers will gain a renewed sense of passion and vigor while practicing and cultivating gratitude as MotherScholars.
Women’s Studies
Street Harassment as Everyday Violence
By Melinda A. Mills
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1237 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2388 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Melinda A. Mills investigates women’s experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The author argues that street harassment connects to other forms of violence that impact women’s daily lives and that can cause “multiplicative trauma” in the wake.
Women’s Studies
The Intersectionality of Women’s Lives and Resistance
Edited by Dawn Hutchinson; Dawn L. Hutchinson and Lori Underwood
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the Communicating Gender series Paperback 978 1 7936 1372 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3707 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1371 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.
Women’s Studies
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